'Kinky forest sex festival' angers sleepy township

AUSTRALIANS are among hundreds of swingers who have flocked to a sleepy English town to take part in a kinky forest sex festival that has neighbours up in arms.

About 500 swingers from as far as Australia and Romania descended on Brokes Wood near Kent on Saturday for the second night of Flamefest, the New York Postreported.

The al fresco event features a dungeon, a dominatrix-controlled 'adult play area' and erotic workshops - including one called 'Getting Sexy with Snakes'.

The festival's website touts the three-day event as a descent into "the purest, most hedonistic elements of the party scene, from kinksters to ravers" where the intrepid "explore pain, experience pleasure and fulfil your fantasies".

But disgusted locals of nearby Tunbridge Wells don't support the sylvan shenanigans and say they never voted to approve the event in the first place.

"I'm no prude but this is the wrong place for this sort of thing. It's a residential area," Councillor Dianne Hill told Kent Live.

Ms Hill said she has received numerous complaints about the sex-focused affair.

"A big worry is they say there will be coaches (buses) coming down," she said.

"Where are they going to park? People are obviously going to be concerned about the noise."